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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

90: EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

You could also call this:

"The EPA can ask other groups for information to help make good decisions about projects."

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The EPA can ask for information from other agencies or local authorities if they think it is necessary for a project. You can think of the EPA like a referee who makes sure projects are done correctly. The EPA can ask for this information at any time, and they can set a deadline for when they need it.

If the EPA asks for information, the agency or local authority must provide it by the deadline, or tell the EPA if they cannot meet the deadline, or if they do not have the information.

The EPA will then pass on the information they receive to the panel convener, who is like a coordinator for the project. You can find more information about similar rules in the Resource Management Act 1991 and other laws, such as this one.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

90EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

  1. This section applies to information that the EPA considers—

  2. is held by a relevant administering agency or a local authority; and
    1. relates to a listed project or a referred project; and
      1. is necessary for considering a current or anticipated substantive application.

        1. The EPA, at any time before or after it receives the substantive application, may request the relevant administering agency or local authority to provide the information and set a date by which the information must be made available.

        2. The relevant administering agency or local authority must,—

        3. within the time specified by the EPA, provide the information requested; or
          1. advise the EPA that the agency or local authority does hold the information but cannot provide it in the time specified by the EPA; or
            1. advise the EPA that the agency or local authority does not hold the information and, if the agency or local authority knows where the information is held, advise the EPA accordingly.

              1. The EPA must provide information that it receives under this section to the panel convener.

              Compare
              • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 7
              • 2023 No 46 Schedule 10 cl 30